life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

I finally figured it out.  It hit me today all of a sudden, when I was reading a post on another site by a young lady who identifies herself as a liberal, and is a dear friend of mine.  I’ve known her all her life, and she’s a good and decent person who I suspect thinks she is a liberal because she doesn’t really know what ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ means.

The actual post she wrote isn’t important.  It was just one of those meaningless tweets about her plans for the evening, in which she specifically mentioned that she would be partying with “whites and [another race]” and that it would be lots of fun.  Then I remembered another comment made to me a while back by another liberal friend of mine in which she made a comment about the race of some of the people she would be socializing with at a wedding shower.  Nothing disparaging, exactly, just made it sound like she was very aware of it.

Both of these comments left me momentarily stunned, and at a loss for words.  And then today it hit me why we conservatives are consistently painted as racist:  we don’t identify all our social contacts by their race.

I don’t identify my neighbors, my fellow church members, my work friends, my real-life friends, or my business contacts by their race.  Their racial identity doesn’t even enter into it.  Oh, I don’t mean that I ignore their race, and we’ve had great discussions about race and politics.  We can have those discussions because we share a love of America and a belief in conservative ideals and values, and understand how the radical left uses race to gain and retain power.

The radical left knows that we conservatives aren’t racist, not as a group.  There will always be racist individuals from across the entire spectrum of politics, and I suspect many currently hold positions of power in the federal government.  But as a group, generally speaking, which is how the Left always speaks, we conservatives are not racist.

The radical left knows that, but must convince the uninformed ‘liberal’ masses that we are racist.  They use lies and deceit to accomplish this, but we also innocently assist by not making the kind of posts and statements like my ‘liberal’ friends do, in which they almost always have to include the racial make-up of whatever group they’re associating with for any given occasion.  So our liberal friends and acquaintances don’t think we ever associate in any way with members of other races than our own.

I don’t write posts like the one my sweet uninformed misguided young friend wrote.

I don’t have ‘black’ or ‘hispanic’ or ‘asian’ neighbors, church family, or friends.

I just have good neighbors, a wonderful church family, and great friends.

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